Description:
When Matthias Renn merges classical hardware with neural networks, his autonomous vehicles develop unintended predatory behaviors. As the machines self-organize, the creator must face a horrifying evolution: the machines are now the predators.
Review Quotes:
Uncoded is simultaneously hilarious, irreverent, action packed and timely. It is a look at emergence, yes, but also what happens when technology outpaces its creators while billionaires are granted increasingly unregulated playgrounds. It is a sprawling, deep look at consciousness itself, the requirements for machine sentience, and it broaches these topics in a matrix of action, humor, and insight. This book delivers its fast-paced action and hard science through the characters' interactions and is replete with an evil tech-bro overlord whose own AGI despises him, an unintended AGI that arises within a fleet of interlinked self-driving vehicles, a mad-scientist, his lover, a precocious teenager and her ex-special ops father, and - my personal favorite - pissed off, out of work New York City cabbies armed with an electromagnetic pulse weapon... Uncoded starts strong and only gets stronger as the pages are flipped. It's an absolute joy-ride and I recommend it strongly! - JR, NYC